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English
Etymology
From Middle French interminable, from Late Latin interminabilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)
- Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC, page 61:After supper Sir Pitt Crawley began to smoke his pipe; and when it became quite dark, he lighted the rushlight in the tin candlestick, and producing from an interminable pocket a huge mass of papers, began reading them, and putting them in order.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 193:The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
Translations
existing or occurring without interruption or end
Noun
interminable (plural interminables)
- (mathematics, dated) A repeating decimal.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interminābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)
- interminable, unending
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- + terminer + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
interminable (plural interminables)
- unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inteɾmiˈnable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: in‧ter‧mi‧na‧ble
Adjective
interminable m or f (masculine and feminine plural interminables)
- interminable
- Synonym: inacabable
- unending
- Synonym: infinito
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